Yorke Blasts Record Company ‘Lie’

Radiohead rocker Thom Yorke has slammed the band’s former label EMI for publicly claiming the group left the firm when record bosses refused to grant their request for a huge advance.

An EMI spokesperson last week told Britain’s The Times that Radiohead decided not to resign with the label when their demands for money, prior to the recording of recent album “In Rainbows,” were not met.

But singer Yorke insists Radiohead never made the request and left EMI because the company refused to let them have “control over our work and how it was used in the future.”

He says, “We did not ask for a load of cash from … EMI to resign. That is a lie.”

The 39-year-old is annoyed EMI boss Guy Hands went public with details of the Radiohead split.

Yorke adds, “To be digging up such [bleep], or more politely airing (your) dirty laundry in public, seems a very strange way for the head of an international record label to be proceeding.”

The British band made history last year when they allowed fans to pay whatever they liked to download “In Rainbows” online. The album had a physical release on CD and vinyl earlier this week.